PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb 21, CMC – Haiti has announced an increase in the minimum wage less than a week after police used teargas to disperse textile workers who had taken to the streets to demand better pay. The workers were demanding a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Shrill whistles mixed with drums, tambourines and the clacking of spoons on pots as public employees shut down streets in Puerto Rico's capital to demand better pay and pensions. The crowd shimmied and...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council on Friday called for those responsible for violence in Haiti to be held accountable and expressed deep concern at the Caribbean nation's “ongoing and protracted crises...
Julia Sardiñas awoke early so she could reach a grocery store in Cuba's capital by 6 a.m. After seven hours in line, she achieved her goal: the purchase of two plastic 1 litre bottles of cooking oil for which she paid 48 Cuban pesos...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United States, European Union and others pledged $600 million in additional funds Wednesday to help hundreds of thousands struggling six months after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti's southern region....
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Trinidad is slowly returning to normal activities on Thursday after an electricity blackout lasting more than 12 hours severely disrupted life. The outage caused water shortages, traffic gridlock, early closure...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:07 PM
The number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine delivered by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to Latin America and the Caribbean reached 100 million on Tuesday, thanks to the efforts of the organisation's Revolving Fund, the procurement and...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:01 PM
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government has defended its policy of providing an amnesty to foreign nationals working and residing in the country, dismissing suggestions that it is merely a political ploy. “What...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 10:15 AM
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban courts have handed out sentences of up to 20 years in prison to a group of people accused of taking part in protests that swept across the island in July, relatives and activists said Tuesday. The 20 defendants sentenced...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rocked several Caribbean islands on Tuesday morning. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies said that there were no immediate...
Curtis Dickinson has dropped a bombshell on the ruling Progressive Labour Party by quitting as Bermuda's Finance Minister just days before he was due to deliver the annual budget. The 2022-23 fiscal package is due to be delivered on February 25...
Health Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill has announced that as of Monday, Barbados will be lifting its daily midnight to 5 a.m COVID curfew. Gooding-Edghill said, in addition, party cruises can once again sail from Valentine's Day. The...
Trinidad and Tobago's National Security Ministry says it has completed a second repatriation of Venezuelans. The exercise involved 38 Venezuelans who had entered Trinidad and Tobago illegally over a period. The Venezuelans were...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Schools and businesses across Haiti shuttered their doors on Monday and large numbers of police patrolled the streets as the country braced for a grim anniversary. Monday marked not only seven months since...
Port of Spain, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has expressed Trinidad and Tobago's deepest sympathy after a nine-year-old Venezuelan child was shot and killed during an operation at sea involving the country's...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The newest judge tapped to oversee the investigation into the killing of President Jovenel Moïse told The Associated Press on Friday that he has not decided whether to take the case amid concerns of putting...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of people have crowded into a shelter in Haiti as authorities said Wednesday that they're struggling to provide drinking water and have been unable to reach several communities affected by heavy...
MIAMI (AP) — Crystal Cruises said Tuesday that a second of its ships diverted to the Bahamas, avoiding a United States judge's order to seize one of its vessels in a legal dispute over fuel bills. The Crystal Serenity arrived in...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy rains that pounded Haiti for more than a day caused widespread flooding that forced nearly 2,500 families to seek temporary shelter, officials said Monday. The cold front that arrived Sunday hit Haiti's...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 rocked sections of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday morning. There have been no reports of damage or injuries. According to a preliminary report from the Seismic Research...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) says a persistent La Niña pattern is expected to continue during the core dry season, which should drive increasing dry spells across the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti is fighting a rise in COVID-19 cases as the government struggles to convince people to get vaccinated, the country's health minister told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The country of 11 million people...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government is considering making mandatory coronavirus (COVID-19) booster shots for travellers entering and leaving the country. Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said COVID-19 booster shots may soon become...
HAVANA (AP) — Some 790 people who participated in anti-government protests in Cuba last year face prosecution for sedition, violent attacks, public disorder, theft and other crimes, the attorney general's office said Tuesday. The...
Opposition Leader in Belize, Patrick Faber, has resigned his position as well as that of the leader of the main opposition United Democratic Party amid a domestic violence row that led to the police issuing a warrant for his arrest last week....
